“Macroevolution” is used to describe the large-scale changes believed to be able to turn a blob of protoplasm into a person. Evolutionists themselves frequently equivocate on the term, using it to mean multiple things, sometimes even within the same sentence.
Micro” EvolutionĮvolution is a word that is used a lot but is poorly defined.
Three hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory work each week. The laboratory investigates evolutionary processes using computer simulations, artificial selection experiments, and a semester-long project that characterizes phenotypic breeding relationships among individuals and integrates these results with analyses of molecular sequence variation for genes contributing to mating recognition. Through lectures and readings from the primary literature, we will study genetic drift and gene flow, natural selection and adaptation, molecular evolution, speciation, the evolution of sex and sexual selection, life history evolution, and inference and interpretation of evolutionary relationships. In this course, emphasis is placed on microevolutionary mechanisms of change, and their connection to large-scale macroevolutionary patterns and diversity. Evolution is a powerful and central theme that unifies the life sciences.
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